“ The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. ”
- Galen- Copy
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“ Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ The more one works, the more willing one is to work. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application — why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. ”
- Howard Nemerov- Copy
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“ If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished — there will always be work you haven't done. ”
- Julia Child- Copy
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“ Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ”
- St. Francis of Assisi- Copy
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“ The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again. ”
- Liv Ullmann- Copy
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“ The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize that it is play. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
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“ Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
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“ I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this. ”
- La Monte Young- Copy
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“ Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own. ”
- Laura Bush- Copy
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“ Each natural agent works but to this end, — To render that it works on like itself. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
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“ Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent. ”
- Dean Martin- Copy
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“ I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
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“ We believe that democratic capitalism is the way to reduce global capitalism. It is basic. Jobs, jobs, jobs... make it possible for people to improve their standards of living. ”
- Steve Forbes- Copy
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“ It sounds so cruel but some of these telethons - even though you're doing it completely for charity - are very important gigs for your career. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
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